Buharry and others,
Thank you all for your forwarded and insightful commentaries on the origin
and ways to control the HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, we need to rethink and
fomulate concerted efforts to curb the accelerated rate of infection
especially in Africa which is worst hit by the disease. A real food for
thought.
It is disheartening, if indeed the theories and/or hypothesis advanced in
these articles that the deadly HIV/AIDS was infact deliberately designed and
spread by man himself just to exterminate a targeted group of people from
the face of the earth. Yet what is disingenuous on the part of the West and
America is the endless concoction/fabrication of stories that the disease
originated from Africa. What a congenital lie this is.
Needless to say, it is now a replica of demons appropriating blame on each
other for their wrongs. Africa at the end of the day shall be exonerated.
Good night/morning.
OB.
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From: MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 20 July 2000 18:28 PM
Subject: Fwd: AIDS: a U.S.-made monster?
Hi!
I promised to post some articles on the AIDS conspiracy theory. Here
they come. Enjoy.
Buharry.
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The US Government created the HIV Virus!!
AIDS: a U.S.-made monster?
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PREFACE
In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret",
Prof
J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made
disease,
originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick,
Maryland.
Top Secret is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is
considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action
Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names
column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and
which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article,
named
"AIDS: US-Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins,"
is
lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with footnotes.
The following is my humble attempt to encapsulate its highlights. It is
recommended that all interested read the original, which is available at
some
bookstores, or can be ordered for $3.50 from:
Top Secret/Geheim Magazine P.O.Box 270324 5000 Koln 1 Germany
AIDS FACTS
"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name
(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced
back
to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also called
'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of antibodies
in
the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional
T4-
cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be produced and the
defenseless patient remains exposed to a range of infections that under
other
circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from
opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself.
The initial infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and
intermittent
fever. An apparent recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the
patient remains without symptoms and functions normally for years.
Occasionally
a swelling of the lymph glands, which does not affect the patient's
well-being,
can be observed.
After several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids- Related
Complex)
sets in. This stage includes disorders in the digestive tract, kidneys and
lungs. In most cases it develops into full-blown AIDS in about a year, at
which
point opportunistic illnesses occur. Parallel to this syndrome, disorders in
various organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of
which range from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death.
This set of symptoms, say the Segals, is identical in every detail with the
Visna sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means
tiredness
in Icelandic). However, the visna virus is not pathogenic for human beings.
The Segals note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through
sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non- sterile hypodermic needles,
the
infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its
discovery, the number of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is
still
doubling every 12 months now though numerous measures have been taken
against
it. Based on these figures, it is estimated that in the US, which had
120,000
cases of AIDS at the end of 1988, 900,000 people will have AIDS or will have
died of it by the end of 1991. It is also estimated that the number of
people
infected is at least ten times the number of those suffering from an acute
case
of AIDS. That in the year 1995 there will be between 10-14 million cases of
AIDS and an additional 100 million people infected, 80 percent of them in
the
US, while a possible vaccination will not be available before 1995 by the
most
optimistic estimates. Even when such vaccination becomes available, it will
not
help those already infected. These and following figures have been reached
at
by several different mainstream sources, such as the US Surgeon General and
the
Chief of the medical services of the US Army.
Say the Segals: "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it is
clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race, whose magnitude is
comparable only with that of a nuclear war." They later explain what they
mean
by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr.
Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When
proceeding to prove their claims, the Segals are careful to note that: "We
have
given preference to the investigative results of highly renowned
laboratories,
whose objective contents cannot be doubted. We must emphasize, in this
connection, that we do not know of any findings that have been published in
professional journals that contradict our hypotheses."
DISCOVERING AIDS
The first KNOWN cases of AIDS occurred in New York in 1979. The first
DESCRIBED cases were in California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris
in
May 1983, taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a
trip
to the East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his co-workers
at
the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same
virus, which is cytotoxic, i.e poisonous to cells.
Shortly after publishing his discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers that the
virus had developed by a natural process from the Human Adult Leukemia
virus,
HTLV-1, which he had previously discovered. However, this claim was not
published in professional publications, and soon after, Alizon and
Montagnier,
two researchers of the Pasteur Institute in Paris published charts of HTLV-1
and HIV, showing that the viruses had basically different structures. They
also
declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of
these two forms could have evolved into the other.
According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual
meeting
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was
almost
entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents
could
be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the Segals, AIDS
was
practically the sole topic of discussion.
THE AIDS VIRUS
The Segals discuss the findings of Gonda et al, who compared the HIV, visna
and other closely-related viruses and found that the visna virus is the most
similar to HIV. The two were, in fact, 60% identical in 1986. According to
findings of the Hahn group, the mutation rate of the HIV virus was about a
million times higher than that of similar viruses, and that on the average a
10% alteration took place every two years. That would mean that in 1984, the
difference between HIV and visna would have been only 30%, in 1982- 20%, 10%
in
1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the Segals, "that at this time
visna
viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability to become
parasites in human T4-cells and the high genetic instability that is not
known
in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact that the first
cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring of 1979."
"In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the Segals, "Coffin
hit upon a remarkable feature. The env (envelope) area of the HIV genome,
which
encodes the envelope proteins which help the virus to attach itself to the
host
cell, is about 300 nucleotides longer than the same area in visna. This
behavior suggests that an additional piece has been inserted into the
genomes
of the visna virus, a piece that alters the envelope proteins and enables
them
to bind themselves to the T4-receptors. BUT THIS SECTION BEHAVES LIKE A
BIOLOGICALLY ALIEN BODY, which does not match the rest of the system
biochemically. (emphasis mine)
The above mentioned work by Gonda et al shows that the HIV virus has a
section
of about 300 nucleotides, which does not exist in the visna virus. That
length
corresponds with what Coffin described. That section is particularly
unstable,
which indicates that it is an alien object. According to the Segals, it
"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered by Gallo-ED) for the likelihood
of
an accidental occurrence in HIV of a genome sequence 60% identical with a
section of the HTLV-1 that is 300 nucleotides in length is zero." Since the
visna virus is incapable of attaching itself to human T4 receptors, it must
have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome section which gave visna the
capability to do so. In other words, the addition of HTLV-1 to visna made
the
HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate of the HIV genome has been
explained by another scientific team, Chandra et al, by the fact that it is
"a
combination of two genome parts which are alien to each other BY ARTIFICIAL
MEANS rather than by a natural process of evolution, because this process
would
have immediately eliminated, through natural selection, systems that are so
replete with disorders."
"These are the facts of the case," say the Segals. "HIV is essentially a
visna
virus which carries an additional protein monomer of HTLV-1 that has an
epitope
capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither Alizon and Montagnier nor any
other biologist know of any natural mechanism that would make it possible
for
the epitope to be transferred from HTLV-1 to the visna virus. For this
reason
we can come to only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by
artificial means, through gene manipulation."
"THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV"
"The construction of a recombinant virus by means of gene manipulation is
extraordinarily expensive, and it requires a large number of highly
qualified
personnel, complicated equipment and expensive high security laboratories.
Moreover, the product would have no commercial value. Who, then," ask the
Segals, "would have provided the resources for a type of research that was
aimed solely at the production of a new disease that would be deadly to
human
beings?"
The English sociologist Allistair Hay (as well as Paxman et al in "A Higher
Form of Killing"-ED), published a document whose authenticity has been
confirmed by the US Congress, showing that a representative of the Pentagon
requested in 1969 additional funding for biological warfare research. The
intention was to create, within the next ten years, a new virus that would
not be susceptible to the immune system, so that the afflicted patient would
not be able to develop any defense against it. Ten years later, in the
spring
of 1979, the first cases of AIDS appeared in New York.
"Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say the Segals.
One group was working on trying to cause animal pathogens to adapt
themselves
to life in human beings. This was done under the cover of searching for a
cure
for cancer. The race was won by Gallo, who described his findings in 1975. A
year later, Gallo described gene manipulations he was conducting. In 1980 he
published his discovery of HTLV.
In the fall of 1977, a P4 (highest security category of laboratory, in which
human pathogens are subjected to genetic manipulations) laboratory was
officially opened in building 550 of Fort Detrick, MD, the Pentagon's main
biological warfare research center. "In an article in 'Der Spiegel`, Prof.
Mollings point out that this type of gene manipulation was still extremely
difficult in 1977. One would have had to have a genius as great as Robert
Gallo
for this purpose, note the Segals."
Lo and behold. In a supposed compliance with the international accord
banning
the research, production and storage of biological weapons, part of Fort
Detrick was "demilitarized" and the virus section renamed the "Frederick
Cancer Research Facility". It was put under the direction of the Cancer
Research Institute in neighboring Bethesda, whose director was no other than
Robert Gallo. This happened in 1975, the year Gallo discovered HTLV.
Explaining how the virus escaped, the Segals note that in the US, biological
agents are traditionally tested on prisoners who are incarcerated for long
periods, and who are promised freedom if they survive the test. However, the
initial HIV infection symptoms are mild and followed by a seemingly healthy
patient.
"Those who conducted the research must have concluded that the new virus
was...not so virulent that it could be considered for military use, and the
test patients, who had seemingly recovered, were given their freedom. Most
of
the patients were professional criminals and New York City, which is
relatively close, offered them a suitable milieu. Moreover, the patients
were
exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug
abuse,
as is often the case in American prisons. 1111
It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among
men
and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals.
They
go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection by means of sexual
contact,
incubation periods are two years and more, while in cases of massive
infection
via blood transfusions, as must have been the case with prisoners,
incubation
periods are shorter than a year. "Thus, if the new virus was ready at the
beginning of 1978 and if the experiments began without too much delay, then
the first cases of full- blown AIDS in 1979 were exactly the result that
could have been expected."
In the next three lengthy chapters, the Segals examine other theories,
"legends" as they call them, of the origins of AIDS. Dissecting each claim,
they show that they have no scientific standing, providing also the findings
of other scientists. They also bring up the arguments of scientists and
popular writers who have been at the task of discounting them as "conspiracy
theorists" and show these writers' shortcomings. Interested readers will
have
to read the original article to follow those debates. I will only quote two
more paragraphs:
"We often heard the argument that experiments with human volunteers are part
of
a barbaric past, and that they would be impossible in the US today... We
wish
to present one single document whose authenticity is beyond doubt. An
investigative commission of the US House of Representatives presented in
October 1986 a final report concerning the Manhattan Project. According to
this
document, between 1945 and 1975 at least 695 American citizens were exposed
to dangerous doses of radioactivity. Some of them were prisoners who had
volunteered, but they also included residents of old-age homes, inmates of
insane asylums, handicapped people in nursing homes, and even normal
patients
in public hospitals; most of them were subjected to these experiments
without
their permission. Thus the 'barbaric past` is not really a thing of the
past."
"It is remarkable that most of these experiments were carried out in
university
institutes and federal hospitals, all of which are named in the report.
Nonetheless, these facts remained secret until 1984, and even then a
Congressional committee that was equipped with all the necessary
authorization needed two years in order to bring these facts to life. We are
often asked how the work on the AIDS virus could have been kept secret. Now,
experiments performed on a few dozen prisoners in a laboratory that is
subject to military security can be far more easily kept secret than could
be the Manhattan Project."
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